Examples of vacate in a Sentence

The election will fill the congressional seat vacated by the retiring senator.

The police told everyone to vacate the premises.

Students must vacate their rooms at the end of the semester.

The court vacated the conviction.

Recent Examples of vacate from the Web

After new DNA evidence corroborated his version of the events, New York County district attorney Robert M. Morgenthau vacated the convictions of the defendants, who all had already served their time and had been released.

For weeks, Moscow has been ratcheting up the pressure on the Trump administration to return two alleged Russian spy compounds, in Maryland and Long Island, which President Barack Obama ordered vacated at the end of last year.

The redevelopment proposes vacating Mercier south of Westport Road to allow for the larger QuikTrip footprint, but city staff said Mercier should be reconfigured to connect to Holly reather than become a dead end.

Commissioners have had some discussion with the Munster family that owns the building and the restaurant, Casa del Mar, that's located there, Good said, adding the restaurant would vacate if the county purchased the building.

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Origin and Etymology of vacate

New Latin vacātus, past participle of vacāre “to annul,” going back to Latin, “to be empty, have space” (sense probably by confusion with Medieval Latin vacuāre “to annul,” going back to Latin, “to empty,” derivative of vacuus “empty”) — more at vacant, 1vacuum